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Dear Mike:<br><br>
In your recent Coral List message you made the following statement:<br>
".... is that land-based sources of pollution have ineradicably
slain more coral reefs than all other causes put together. The references
on this are close to countless...."<br><br>
Having tried to track down peer-reviewed published work on this subject
and having found the Kaneohe Bay case, and some of Jorge
Cortes and your work on Costa Rica reefs buried in sediments to be the
only scientifically credible major studies of reef decline due to
pollution, I'd greatly appreciate being directed to the "countless
references". I am sure there are others on Coral List whom
also would be interested. Hopefully you have a master list of such
references on your computer you could send out as an attachment or post
on a web site for our edification while your office is being
remodeled.<br><br>
Thanks,<br><br>
Alina Szmant<br><br>
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Dr. Alina M. Szmant <br>
Center for Marine Science <br>
University of North Carolina at Wilmington <br>
One Marvin K. Moss Lane <br>
Wilmington NC 28409 <br>
TEL: (910)962-2362 FAX: (910)962-2410 <br>
email: szmanta@uncwil.edu <br>
<font color="#FF0000">Presently in Key Largo: (305)453-4595 <br>
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